1. Jeremy Zuckerman was born on July 31,1975 and is an American composer of concert music, film and television music, music for modern dance, and experimental music.
11 Facts About Jeremy Zuckerman
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Jeremy Zuckerman is best known as the composer for the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender and its sequel series The Legend of Korra.
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At age five, Zuckerman began learning piano with his mother as his teacher.
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Jeremy Zuckerman studied jazz and computer music at the Berklee College of Music, where he earned a bachelor's degree.
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Jeremy Zuckerman earned a master's degree at the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied modern composition with a focus on computer music and sonic art with Morton Subotnick, Mark Trayle, and Tom Erbe.
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Jeremy Zuckerman grew up from a Jewish family in Brooklyn.
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Jeremy Zuckerman created the music for the critically acclaimed television series, Avatar: The Last Airbender, which won a Peabody Award in 2008.
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Jeremy Zuckerman composed the music for the Avatar sequel series, The Legend of Korra.
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Jeremy Zuckerman went on to score the first three seasons of MTV and VH1's Scream, as well as the PBS documentaries Nature: Snow Monkeys and Nature: Yosemite.
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Jeremy Zuckerman is a founding member of The Echo Society, a Los Angeles-based collective whose mission is to gather, inspire, enrich and connect the community through the creation and performance of new sonic and visual art.
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Jeremy Zuckerman composed the music to playwright Juli Crockett's theatre pieces [or, the whale], a spoken word opera which debuted in Los Angeles in 2001, and Orpheus Crawling, an experimental opera which premiered in 2007 at the New Original Works Fest at REDCAT.